pailleart
a box on the ear, a blow with the palm: *palm-bheart, "palm-action", from Latin palma, palm; cf. Welsh palfad, stroke of the paw, Breton palfod, blow on the cheek.

pР°illiun
a tent, Irish pailliСЉn; from Middle English pailyoun (Barbour), pavilon, French pavillon, from Latin papilionem, a butterfuly - tents being called after the butterfly because spread out like its wings. Stokes takes it direct from the French

pait
a hump, lump, Irish pait, Middle Irish pait, mass; also Irish paiteСѓg, small lump of butter; from English pat. Skeat thinks the English is from the Gaelic, but the p is fatal to the word being native Gadelic.

pack-saddle, pillion, Irish pillРЅn, Welsh pilyn; English pillion is allied, if not borrowed, according to Skeat. All are formed on Latin pellis (see peall). Scottish has pillions for "rags"; Breton pill (do.).

pick, Irish piocaim; from English pick. Thurneysen thinks that Welsh pigo is ultimately from the Romance picco (point), French pique, or allied thereto. Skeat takes the English from Celtic; but See Bradley's Stratmann.

piocach
a saith, coalfish (Wh.):

piocaid

pickaxe, Irish piocСѓid; from pioc, English pick, a pickaxe, from French pic (do.). Whether the termination is Gadelic or the French word piquet, little pickaxe, English picket, was borrwed at once, it is hard to say.

piollach
(1) neat, trim (M`F., H.S.D., Arms.), (2) hairy (= peallach, of which it is a side form, H.S.D., etc.), fretful, curious-looking (M`A.). The second sense belongs to peallach, the first to piol: "pilled".

piollaiste
trouble, vexation: "plucked" state, from piol?

pioraid
hat, cap; See biorraid.

pРјorbhuic , piorrabhuic

periwig, Irish peireabhuic; from the English

piorr
scrape or dig ( H.S.D.), stab, make a lunge at one ( M`A.); the first sense seems from Scottish, English pare; for the second, See purr.

plab
soft noise as of a body falling into water; from Scottish plope, Dial. English plop: onomatopoetic like plump. Skeat compares English blab. See plub.

placaid
a wooden dish; through Scottish (?) from French plaquette, plaque, a plate, whence English placard, Scottish placad. M`A. gives also the meaning "flat, broad, good-natured female", which is a metaphoric use.

plaibean
a lump of raw flesh, a plump boy; founded on Scottish plope, as in plab above. Cf. English plump.

plaide
a blanket, Irish ploid; English plaid, Scottish plaiden, coarse woollen cloth, like flannel, but twilled: all are founded on Latin pellis, but whether invented by Gadelic or English is at present doubtful. Skeat says it is Celtic, a view which, as the case stands, has most to say for it; cf. Gaelic peallaid, sheepskin. Dunbar's "Hieland Pladdis".

plais
a splash; from Scottish plash, to strike water suddenly, English plash, splash.

plam
anything curdled: cf. Breton plommein, a clot, as of blood. See slaman. M`A. gives it the meaning of "fat blubber cheek". Arg. has "bainne plumaichte", curdled or soured mild.

plang
a plack - a Scots coin; from Scottish plack, a copper coin equal to four pennies Scots, which came with the Flemish, etc., and is allied to French plaque, used of coin, though really a "metal dish, etc.". See placaid.

plР°t
a sort of cloth made of straw; from Scottish plat, plait, English plait. M`A. has the meaning "thrust, clap on", from Scottish plat, a stroke to the ground, blow with the fist, Middle English platten, strike, throw down, Anglo-Saxon plaettan.

ploc
a roud mass, clod, block (rare), Irish bloc, a block, Welsh ploc, block, plug, Breton bloc'h, block, mass: Gadelic and Welsh are from English block, from French bloc, of German origin - German block, clod, lump, from the root of English balk.

plod
a clod; from Scottish plod, ploud, a green sod (Aberdeen).

plod
a fleet, Manx plod; from Norse floti, English fleet, float, etc.

plod
a pool of standing water, Manx, Irish plod; from Middle English plodde, a puddle, English plod, originally "to wade through water", ploude, wade through water (Grose), Scottish plout, plouter (do.).

plodadh

parboiling; from Scottish plot, to scald or burn with boiling water, plottie, a rich and pleasant hot dring made of cinnamon, cloves, etc. Also "floating" wood down river.

poca
a bag; from Scottish pock, Anglo-Saxon poca, Norse, poki, Old French poche.

pС‚ca , pС‚caid

pocket, pouch, Irish pСѓca, pСѓcait (Four Masters), bag, pouch; from Middle English pСѓke, Anglo-Saxon poca, as poca. English pocket, Middle English poket, is a diminutive. K.Meyer takes the Irish from the Norse poki.

pС‚g , pР°g
a kiss, Manx paag, Irish pСѓg, Old Irish pСѓc, pСѓcnat, osculum, Welsh pСѓc, Breton pok; from Latin pГўcem, "the kiss of peace", which was part of the ritual for the Mass; hence in Church Latin dare pacem, means "to give the kiss". The old Celtic liturgies generally carry the rubric "Hic pax datur" immediately before the Communion.

pС‚ireagan
rag, rags (M`D.):

poit
a pot, Irish pota, Welsh pot, Breton pod; from English and French pot, from Latin potare ultimately. See pС‚it.

poll
a pool, a hole, mud, Irish, Early Irish poll, Welsh pwll, Cornish pol, Breton poull; from Late Latin padulus, pool, a metathesis of palus, paludis, marsh (Gaidoz), whece It. padula, Sp. paСЉl. Teutonic has Anglo-Saxon pСѓl, English pool, Dutch poel, Old High German pfuol, German pfuhl. Skeat considers that poll is from Low Latin padulis, and that the Anglo-Saxon pСѓl was possibly borrowed from the British Latin or Latin remains seen in place-names having port, street, -chester, etc. (Principles @+1 437).

poll, pollair
nostril, Irish pollР±ire, poll-srСѓna; from poll.

pollag
the fish pollock or lythe - gadus pollachius, of the cod and whiting genus, Irish pullСѓg; from poll? Hence the English name. The Irish English pollan, Scottish powan, is a different fish - of the salmon genus.

pollairean
the dunlin (Heb.), polidna alpina. Mr Swainson (Folklore of British Birds) translates its Gaelic name as "bird of the mud pits ( poll)", an exact description, he says.

ponach
boy, lad (Dial.), poinneach (W.Ross); cf. Manx ponniar, a boy, a small fish basket? In ARg. boinnean (Wh.), from boinne. Cf. use of proitseach. The word is for bonach.

pС‚naidh
a pony; from the Scottish pownie, from Old French poulenet (l lost as usual), little colt, now poulain, a colt, from Medieval Latin pullanus, from Latin pullus, foal, English foal, filly.

preas
a bush, brier, Welsh prys, burshwood, covert: *qr@.st-, root qer of crann? The Gaelic, which is borrowed, is doubtless of Pictish origin.

preas
a press, cupboard, Manx, prest; from the English press.

preas
a wrinkle, fold; from the English press.

preathal
confusion of mind, dizziness; See breitheal.

prighig
fry; from the English frying.

prРјne
a pin; from the Scottish preen, Middle English pre@-on, Anglo-Saxon prР№on, Norse prjСѓnn, German pfriem.

priobadh
winking, twinkling (of the eye), Irish prap in le prap na sСЉl, in the twinkling of the eyes (Keating), from prap, sudden, preaba in na bi preaba na sula muich (B.of Moyra), Middle Irish prapud, brief space (as twinkling of the eyes), la brafad sСЉla, older friha brathad sula, where we get the series prapud, brafad, brathad (g. brotto), Old Irish brothad, moment. Stokes compares the similar Gothic phrase - in brahva augins, where brahv might = a British *brap, borrowed into Irish. The form frafad could easily develop into brap; the difficulty is the passinng of th of brothad (which gives g. brotto) info f of brafad (but See Rev.Celt.@+10 57). The Gaelic priobadh has its vowel influenced by preabadh, kicking, that is, breab, q.v. Zim. (Zeit.@+32 223) cites brofte, momentary, and says brafad is made from bro, eyebrow, falsely.

priobaid
a trifle, priobair, a worthless fellow; from Scottish bribour, low beggarly fellow, Middle English bribour, rascal, thief; from Old French bribeur, beggar, vagabond, briber, to beg, bribe, morsel of bread, English bribe. Hence priobaid is from an early Northern form of English bribe. See breaban further.